This isn’t real.

Wandered by the @librarycongress.bsky.social booth just in time to hear about how they used IRENE to digitize the flexidisc in Amelia Earhart's autobiography. U. Iowa has this book and I have been wanting to hear the recording for more than 10+ years since I first saw it. #alaac26

I am in Milwaukee and ready for #RBMS26! The weather is beautiful.

There are a lot of pirates at the Des Moines Public Library this evening!

"...she brought with her, as a gift to the Library, a replica of Roo—the baby kangaroo toy lost so long ago—made specially by Merrythought, the same manufacturer of the original toys." 📜 www.nypl.org/blog/2026/04...

UI Museum Studies students gain hands-on experience through Unpacking Travel exhibit (Iowa) 📜 blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/202...

Inside the UI Libraries with Bill Voss 📚📜 #conservation #LibraryConservation #Exhibitions blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2026/02...

I've been doing some research that all is set in 1971/1972. It shouldn't catch me by surprise, but it did. This headline. Was "news."

Me: "I'll take a 10 min break from grading and watch a video or two." First video: Laminate all of your grandmother's recipe cards, it's the best option. /cry /cry /cry

This is indeed what I contain. Maybe not the last one. (Democratic Ladies Cookbook from the Democratic Women's Club of Johnson County, IA, 1965.)

Archives & Special Collections' Elizabeth Joffrion to retire Dec. 15 (Western Washington University) 📜 news.wwu.edu/archives-spe...

6% of the case.

What the heck? This is one of the main tools I use in PowerPoint because the search function works better than the main search tool. WHY????

Millie's daughter Peggy bequeathed her mother's collection of every book she had ever written to the Iowa Women's Archives (and one of her typewriters!) in 2013. You can read about that here: www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/mildred/...

I got to have Henry Booklobster out in my class today! Thé, Robert, and Bradley Smith. [Henry Booklobster]. Kingston, N.Y.]: [the artist], 2010.

The visit to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee today included a tour of some of Max Yela's favorite artist's books. Would you want a tour? #rbms26

Our next stop is the Marquette University special collections. They have the original Tolkein manuscripts for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Plans are in the works for a tour! #rbms26

Next up on our #RBMS26 planning tour is the Milwaukee Public Library. We are figuring out how to plan a tour.

The streetcars are free in Milwaukee, and there is a streetcar tour and it takes you to restaurants all over. #rbms26

Classic Milwaukee. #rbms26

Architecture boat tours pick up across the street from the hotel! Picnic tables in the park across the street in the summer. #rbms26

It is so pretty. Milwaukee Historical Society is right across the street from the conference hotel. #rbms26

I spy some of the rare book stacks in the upper gallery at the Milwaukee Historical Society. #rbms26 There will be tours!

The Milwaukee Historical Society is asking the important questions in their current exhibition. #rbms26 #Milwaukee

Seriously. Sign up for the new member's mixer. #rbms26

The view for the New Members Mixer and the scholarship breakfast at #rbms26 is pretty spectacular. #Milwaukee

It's not what I was looking for in the journal I was searching, but this ad from 1999 does make it clear how much things have changed.

I gasped when I saw this item (1710-1711?) for sale today from Dean Cooke Rare Books on Ex Libris. The second photo is Francis Smith Medical Recipe book that I had out in class this morning at U. Iowa (1704). I didn't expect to see one so similar! Are these common? Have you ever seen one before?

Surprising information in the inscription, and a preservation treatment. 📜 blog.thepreservationlab.org/2025/09/a-ti...

The public library bookmobile is parked on the medical campus today. I love this so much! Everyone should have easy access. 📚